Rank: Specialist 5
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 71M – Chaplain Assistant
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 31-May-1968
Note: Chaplains Assistant
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 20-Mar-1947
Hometown: Sherrills Ford, North Carolina
Next of Kin: Married to Emma V. Abernathy
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Incident date: 2-Feb-1969
Date of casualty: 2-Feb-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Unknown. Misadventure. Individual died from wound received while on a military mission when mistaken for hostile force and hit by friendly fire.
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Rehobeth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Terrell, North Carolina, USA
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